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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by AdamN on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:40AM (#49475562)
It is funny :-)

Moving to Germany from the US was like entering a timewarp. PayPal is still real??? People use it??

I get it now but it's a pretty big miss that GiroCard couldn't figure out how to displace them after all this time.

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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by ricardobayes on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:01AM (#49475733)
Sometimes it's the other way around. Lockers for packages were first introduced in Germany (Packstation) then they were rolled out in the US almost a decade later.

Not having a lot of credit cards and the associated rewards is actually healthy. Research has shown lower social classes "pay" for the rewards due to paying the higher transaction fees. There was actually a relevant thread here a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432201 (How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer)

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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by sho_hn on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:12AM (#49475817)
:-)

Well, I used to live and work in South Korea for many years, so both DE and the US are about equally oldschool in my book :)

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